Author Archives: Allison Deger

About Allison Deger

Allison Deger is the Assistant Editor of Mondoweiss.net. Follow her on twitter at @allissoncd.

Video: Palestinian prisoners and their families

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) released a short film yesterday profiling former prisoner Hana Shalabi who was recently released from administrative detention following a 43-day hunger strike.

Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Reports/Video | 2 Comments

On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, protest mounts against world’s largest security contractor

On Palestinian Prisoners’ Day, civil society and prisoner rights organizations call for boycotts against the security giant G4S, the world’s second largest private employer.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, US Politics | 2 Comments

New Migron bill could lead to massive Israeli land grab in the West Bank

Knesset prepares a second version of the Migron bill, legislation that could legalize all illegal outposts in the West Bank and give incentives for a flood of future settlements on Palestinian land.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists | 21 Comments

Israel imprisons youth for refusing army service

Noam Gur (left, above) has been sentenced to ten days in an Israeli jail for being a refusenik, a conscientious objector to military service in the Israeli military.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government | Tagged | 11 Comments

The occupation reaches Europe: airlines cancel ‘flytilla’ passenger tickets

Three European airlines have sent notices to flytilla passengers informing them that their airline tickets were canceled, based on “Israel’s orders.”

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation | 95 Comments

American Jews won’t vote on Israel in 2012 election

A new report on the voting behavior of American Jews indicates, despite efforts by hasbara groups and partisan superPACS Israel is not an election issue. And popular support for Barack Obama is about level with the last election.

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 21 Comments

Israel mobilizes special forces to deport ‘flytilla’ activists

This Sunday, the Airflotilla2, or “flytilla,” organizers expect around 1,500 international activists to fly into Ben-Gurion airport in order to draw attention to Israeli control over the occupied territories.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Flotilla, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation | Tagged | 33 Comments

Settler leader: ‘We were here before Obama and the American Dominion . . we will continue build everywhere.’

Earlier this week, dozens of Israeli youth marked the Passover holiday by storming Palestinian land near Jerusalem to build a makeshift illegal outpost.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East | 13 Comments

Orlando Fox affiliate calls neo-Nazis a ‘civil rights group’

Mistaking a Neo-Nazi white supremacy group for a civil rights group, on Monday a local Fox news station reported “there’s another civil rights group in town, the National Socialist Movement,” in their coverage of the Trayvon Martin case.

Posted in US Politics | 37 Comments

In pictures: Easter under occupation

Despite restrictions imposed by the Israeli occupation, over the weekend 35,000 Christians gathered in Jerusalem to observe Catholic Easter and Eastern Orthodox Palm Sunday.

Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation | 7 Comments

The symbol of Nakba: Deir Yassin remembered

Yesterday marked 64 years since the massacre of the Palestinian village Deir Yassin carried out by Zionist para-military forces.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation | 11 Comments

Video: Arizona State’s SJP debka flashmob

On April 3, 2012, Arizona State University’s (ASU) Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) staged a debka flashmob on their campus.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Reports/Video, US Politics | 14 Comments

Israeli Big Brother makes the occupation ‘a reality’ on TV

Last week, as Israel’s hit-show Big Brother approached its seasonal finale, underdog and hunky left-wing darling Saar Szekely, held his own big finish with a groundbreaking reality TV conversation debating the occupation.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation, Reports/Video | 7 Comments

‘German GQ’ gets a political story American media have ignored: Palestinian youth

Joseph Dana profiles for German GQ magazine Palestinian activists Dina Alzeer and Fadi Quran, who are at the center of the new youth movement flourishing on the ground.

Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists | 5 Comments

Video: ‘Long range acoustic device’ and other weapons used on Palestinians on Land Day

Video footage of today’s Land Day protest, capturing Israeli forces aggressively using weapons against Palestinian protestors.

Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Reports/Video | 19 Comments

Land Day in Pictures: Israel, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank

March 30th, the Palestinian Land Day in with pictures from the West Bank, to Gaza, to Israel, to Lebanon.

Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Occupation | Tagged | 9 Comments

Land Day in posters: a retrospective of the 1980s

A retrospective of Palestinian Land Day political posters from 1980 through 1989.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation | 7 Comments

Israel stands by debunked story of Palestinian child’s death

Critics of Khulood Badawi, a Palestinian employee of the UN who tweeted a dated photo of a three-year-old girl who was killed as a result of Israeli missiles, are calling for the aid worker’s termination on the purported grounds the girl died from a playground accident, despite new information on Israel’s responsibility.

Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation | 6 Comments

JNF launches new ‘bluewashing’ website – PositivelyIsrael

The Jewish National Fund (JNF) launched a new blueshwashing website, PositivelyIsrael.org, to inform how “Israel is changing the world – for the better.”

Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, US Politics | 18 Comments

BDS victory: Norwegian retailer de-shelves Ahava

The Norwegian retailer VITA announced on Friday they will no longer carry products made by Ahava, citing a decision to stop selling all settlement products produced in occupied Palestine.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Occupation | 5 Comments

Vigilante settler seeks ‘strong men’ to evict Palestinians from East Jerusalem home

Following an announcement by Aryeh King, an extremist settler with the Israel Land Fund (ILA), of plans to take over Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, the right-wing leader placed ads in newspapers seeking “strong men [who] are wanted to legally evacuate Arab squatters.”

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists | 10 Comments

Israeli diplomat chased out of Morocco after mass protest

Yesterday, Israeli diplomat David Saranga was chased out of Morocco after a mass demonstration for Palestinian rights spread across the capital.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Reports/Video | 28 Comments

A night raid in Nabi Saleh displays oafishness and contempt

The Tamimi family films a raid of their Nabi Saleh house, sharing a rare peek into the late night activities of the IDF.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, On the ground reports, Reports/Video | Tagged | 3 Comments

Israeli military shoots 14-year-old protester in face with rubber bullet

Today during the weekly Friday demonstrations in Nabi Saleh, family members of political prisoner Bassam Tamimi were injured with rubber bullets by the Israeli military.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation | 30 Comments

Wikileaks: Google caught in spy games on execs and ‘regime change’

Google execs shared information on Egyptian travels of executive Jared Cohen with an intelligence firm

Posted in Egypt, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 47 Comments